Peter baxendale



(No Model P. BAXBNDALE.

CHECK ROW WiRE.

No. 581,805. Patented May 4,1897.

Win $565 Unrrnn Starts a'rnnr PETER BAXENDALE, OF STREATOR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF TlVO-TIIIRDS TO A. ALLEN AND E. M. DAVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

FFIQEQ CHECK-ROW WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,805, dated May 4, 1897.

Application filed December 24;, 1896. Serial No. 616,931. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concernpoint where they are bent to form the branches Be it known that 1, PETER BAXENDALE, a D, are provided, as better shown in Fig. 1, citizen of the United States, residing at Streawith the two (more or less) bent or kinked tor, in the county of La Salle and State of Illiportions (Z, and the branches D are also pronois, have invented certain new and useful vided at points opposite the bent portions (1 Improvements in Check-Row ires; and I do with bent or kinked portions 6, as shown. In declare the following to be a full, clear, and virtue of this construction it will be seen that exact description of the invention, such as with the branch D in the position shown in will enable others skilled in the art to which Fig. 1 theright-hand section A may be readily it appertains to make and use the same. disconnected from the loop a of the othersec- My invention relates to improvements in tion A and as readily connected thereto when check-row lines; and it has for its general obdesired. IVith the said branch D in the same jectlo provide a cheap and simple check-row position, when itis desired to securely conline made up of a plurality of sections, the nect the sections A so as to adapt the line for said sections embodying such a construction use in conjunction with a corn-planter it is that additional sections may be readily consimply necessary to move the branchD around nectedwhenitis desired toincrease the length the main portion of the section in the direcof the line and any number of sections may tion indicated by arrow in Fig. 1. \Vhen this be readily disconnected when it is desired to is done, the bends e of the branch D will conshorten the line, and this without the aid of form with the bends d of the main portion any implement. and the portions between the bends of the lVith the foregoing end in view the invenbranch and main portion will conform to each tion will be fully understood from the folother, and the branch will be securely held in lowing description and claim when taken in its twisted relation to the main portion and conjunction with the annexed drawings, in will not be liable to be casually untwisted. which here, however, it is desired to disconnect Figure 1 is a perspective view of a port-ion the sections, it is simply necessary for the of my improved sectional check-row line, the operator to grasp the end of the branchD with wire forming the loop of one section being his thumb and forefinger and move the same shown in the position to which it is adjusted around the main portion of the section A in when the said section is to be disconnected the direction indicated by arrow in Fig. 2. from the other section; and Fig. 2 is a simi- This will return the branch D to the position lar view with the wire forming the aforesaid shown in Fig. 1, and the disconnection may loop in the position it occupies when its secthen be readily effected, as is obvious. tion is connected to the othersection and the The provision of the bends or kinks in the line is ready for use. main portions of the sections A and the Referring by letter to the said drawings, A branches D thereof enables the operator to indicates the sections of myimproved checkvery easily and quickly twist and untwist the row line, which are formed of slightly-resilibranches D with his thumb and forefinger ent wire of about the caliber shown. These without the aid of any implement, and consections A are provided at one end with a persequently enables him to conveniently add manently-elosed loop a, formed by twisting sections to or remove sections from the line the end of the wire tightly about the main to increase or diminish the length thereof as portion thereof, as indicated by b, and in said desired. The provision of such bends or kinks loop is arranged a stop or button I which has in the main portions and branches 1) of the notches c at diametrically opposite points in sections does not.however,materiallyincrease its edge receiving the wire forming the loop, the cost of the line, which may be produced as shown. At their opposite ends the sections almost if not quite as cheaply as an ordinary 10: A are provided with the branch D, which is line. bent back and rests approximately parallel Having thus described myinvention, what to the main portion of the section. The main I claim isportions of the sections A, adjacent to the The check-row line described comprising the plurality of sections A, having the closed I twisting it about the main portion of the secloops a, at one end and the branches D, at tion, and buttons or stops secured in the loops their opposite ends bent into a position apa, of the sections, substantially as and for the proximately parallel to their main portions purpose set forth.

5 and also having one or more bends or kinks In testimony whereof I affix my signature 15 d, in their main portions and one or more in presence of two Witnesses. bends or kinks e, in their branches D; the PETER BAXENDALE. said sections A, being detachably connected lVitnesses: by passing the branch D, of one section J. R. HOPPER, 10 through the loop a, of the next section and I J. W. MILLER. 

